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Premier Paula Cox and Bermuda’s largest-ever delegation will be “shaking the trees” and “pounding the pavement” at the world’s largest insurance conference this week in hopes of attracting more business to the Island.
The annual RIMS conference has d...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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Reinvention. If I say the word Cirque — I am sure you immediately add the words “du Soleil”. This Canadian company reinvented the circus and created a whole new standard of entertainment.
On Sunday evening my wife Karen and I attended “The Beatles: ...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Works
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UK publication Euromoney has named Butterfield Bank as Bermuda’s best private bank in its 2012 Global Private Banking Survey. Butterfield was also ranked number one in Bermuda for “Relationship Management” and its “Range of Investment Products”.
In ...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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Butterfield Bank jumped more than 5 percent on the Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday.
Butterfield rose 6 cents, or 5.3 percent, to $1.19 as 10,500 shares changed hands. The bank’s shares recently hit a low of 99 cents.
Bermuda Press shares rose 8.1 pe...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Stock Exchange
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Major catastrophe losses shaved three percent from total worldwide reinsurer capital last year according to a new study just released.
The Aon Benfield Aggregate report, which analyses the year-end financial position of the world’s leading reinsurer...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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Bermuda insurers’ profits were decimated last year by huge catastrophe losses, the latest figures from the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR) showed.
Data based on 21 of ABIR’s 22 member companies showed that their combined net inc...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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Summer or winter, one in five British workers (22.4 percent) never gets out for lunch during a normal working week, even if it’s just to grab a sandwich or coffee.
If they do get out, it’s not for long, over a quarter (25.9 percent) of workers spend...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Works
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St George’s speciality hat and clothing shop Lidz is closing down, citing struggling sales.
Owner Giovanna Harris said sales started off “great” but dropped off by the end of this past summer.
“It’s really slow in St George’s and we have just been af...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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Bermuda-based insurer Ironshore is bringing Lloyd’s political risk coverage to the US market.
The company announced yesterday that its subsidiary Ironshore Insurance Services LLC will offer political violence, war and stand-alone terrorism insurance...
DATE: Apr 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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Share price gains for BF&M Ltd and Butterfield Bank pushed The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index higher last week.
Insurer BF&M gained 50 cents, or 3.3 percent, on the trading of 5,000 shares, to close on $15.50.
Butterfield’s commo...
DATE: Apr 16, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Stock Exchange
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